Short Stories

Stephen Henighan’s first published short story was accepted by Pierian Spring, a literary magazine in Brandon, Manitoba, when he was nineteen years old. Since then, whatever else he has been writing, there has always been a draft of a short story on his desk.

As an undergraduate at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Stephen won the Potter Short Story Prize, which that year was judged by the novelist Richard Price, beating out, among others, fellow undergraduate Jonathan Franzen, who came third.

While a graduate student at the University of Oxford, Stephen became the first writer to place stories in three different editions of the annual May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories. The second writer to achieve this, one year later, was Zadie Smith.

Stephen’s short stories have been published in many magazines and anthologies in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.